Residents of an Upstate apartment complex say that many of them will have to pay hundreds of dollars to replace tires that were slashed overnight Monday.

Greenville county deputies are still trying to calculate how many vehicles were damaged but they say it may be as many as 50.

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The tires were slashed at Jamestowne Commons on East North Street in Taylors.

Deputies told WYFF News 4 that this is the second time tires were slashed at the complex in the past two weeks.

Resident Jason Gooden said, “I was actually in bed and police came to my door, banging on my door, and so we jumped up. And I looked out the window first and then ran downstairs. And then that's when they told me, you know, ‘Can you take a look at your vehicle?’ I got outside. It was like a line of people -- it looked like NASCAR, everybody was changing their tires and everything.

“We were lined up with tow trucks trying to get the cars out of here. Some people can change spare tires. Some people don't have enough spare tires to put on their vehicle. So it just put a damper in my day. I mean everything's thrown behind. It just kind of brings you down, especially after a good holiday weekend," he said.

Gooden says that it won’t be just Greenville County law enforcement who will be looking for the vandals who slashed the tires.

“I can promise you that more people than just us, out of the 62 cars that have been affected, are going to be looking. And anybody that's strange and doesn't belong in this neighborhood will probably be called out.”

In the meantime, Gooden said he would like to see some changes to help prevent crimes in the neighborhood.

“Cameras would be nice. Even if it was something to where it's not such a quick get-away. We're right here beside Eastside High School. It's a cut-through road that leads to the high school and it causes a lot of problems. Not just vandalism and things like that but traffic.

“I’d like to see small things; speed bumps, something to slow down the traffic flow" Gooden said. "Cameras would be nice, you know, maybe putting a cop on rotation every hour or late hours -- something to show that, ‘Hey look. We are changing the way we watch our neighborhood and trying to get better so these problems don't happen again.’”